And they keep finding new ways to kill. A woman in Japan was essentially murdered while filming a “bukkake” scene in a pornographic film. Cause of death: she drowned in semen.

We hide it behind “emergencies” like pollution, climate change, and ecocide…

BUT:

While you half-skim this article, there’s a male predator out there who’s in the act of grooming a pregnant woman so he can eventually have easy access to sexually abuse her newborn infant.

Men are working out deals with cab drivers to pick up young women and, instead of taking them to the destination they request, deliver them to human traffickers who will condemn them to life as a slave within the massive, worldwide rape-for-profit industries of prostitution and pornography.

Generals, war lords, elected officials, and despots are holding meetings to discuss where and how to utilize systemic rape as a weapon of war. Such tactics have been employed by groups of men ranging from local paramilitary death squads to the planet’s largest and well-funded armies.

Meanwhile, for far too many women, avoiding male violence is their largest expense…

We may cleverly lump the whole nightmare under the banner of “humanity,” but that just may be the most deceptive choice of all.

If we want to live in a better world, we must openly and relentlessly name the problem: MEN. We are the problem. Patriarchy, male supremacy, male pattern violence, misogyny -- and all the institutional structures created to maintain and obscure this necrophilic system.

If we men want to live up to self-anointed labels like activist, revolutionary, radical, ally, and comrade, the path is clear. If we simply want to be better friends, sons, fathers, husbands, boyfriends, co-workers, classmates, colleagues, etc., we are required to do almost all of the initial work and make (by far) the biggest changes and commitments.

With that in mind, I’d like to re-visit my list of 10 simple ways men can appeal to their own moral sense and get started right now:

Don’t rape and don’t be a rape apologist (99.8 percent of those in prison for rape in the United States are men and 0 percent of these rapists committed their atrocity because the victim was “asking for it”).

Share what you learn with boys and young men to give them a real chance to be better.

One more time: We must all name the problem, over and over again. We men must do so until we stop being the problem and stop passing on the problem to the next generation.

Everything else is just distraction, denial, and delusion.

Mickey Z. is the founder of Helping Homeless Women - NYC, offering direct relief to women on the streets of New York City. To help him grow this project, CLICK HERE and make a donation right now. And please spread the word!